Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

- Bradley, Francis H.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

10.

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

11.

Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

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Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

16.

It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

17.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

18.

You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

19.

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

20.

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

21.

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

22.

Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

23.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

24.

Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

25.

Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

26.

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

27.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

28.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

31.

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

32.

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

33.

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

41.

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.